Higher Education News

The University System of Maryland (USM) has entered into a groundbreaking partnership with edX, the nonprofit online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT in 2012 to increase global access to high-quality education. The agreement is designed to further increase student success, as well as the access, affordability, and quality of higher education in Maryland and around the world.

The survey conducted by the Kirwan Center on directors of academic-technology centers at 163 colleges and universities is featured in an new article in the Chronicle of Higher Education

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Competency-based education can help motivated students. But critics say it’s no panacea.